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YouTube giveth, and YouTube taketh away. The Google service has announced that it is getting rid of annotations, the obnoxious boxes that popup over a video to provide a link to a different video or ...

In a small update to a YouTube support page last month, the online video giant announced that annotations would be deleted from all videos using the feature early next year. Image: Youtube / ...

For YouTube users who enjoy pop-ups in videos, those days will soon come to an end. Google, the company who owns the video platform, announced on Tuesday that video annotations will be removed from ...

Marrian Zhou is a Beijing-born Californian living in New York City. She joined CNET as a staff reporter upon graduation from Columbia Journalism School. When Marrian is not reporting, she is probably ...

YouTube is replacing its annoying video annotations with a new "cards" system that looks a bit classier albeit more obstructive. Here's what you can expect to see on both desktops and mobile devices ...

Google has announced that existing annotations on YouTube videos will be removed on 15 January 2019. The news comes as the adoption of end screens and cards has grown while annotation use has dropped ...

Add extra information to your YouTube videos with the annotations editor. Annotations can come in the form of video captions, titles or notes; these can give your videos extra effect and make them ...

Google quietly announced that it would remove YouTube annotations starting January 15, 2019. Google already discontinued the annotations editor in May 2017. If you have videos on YouTube that use ...

For better or for worse, YouTube has just made it easier to add annotations to your videos. Annotations, which were introduced to the site last June, consist of little grey popups that can include ...